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Study co-led by LATICE researcher Simon Filhol on new approaches to meteorological observations on remote polar glaciers is highlighted on Titan.

Researcher Norbert Pirk won European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant (StG) for his project 'Actively learning experimental design in terrestrial climate science (ACTIVATE)'.

The European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2023 brings together geoscientists from all over the world to a conference covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary and space sciences. Also this year several LATICE researchers will present their work at this conference.

Myr og permafrost lagrer enorme mengder karbon. Men inngrep og varmere klima gjør at drivhusgasser slipper ut. Ingen vet hvor mye. Det gjør klimamodellene usikre.

A new study titled "Vegetation type is an important predictor of the arctic summer land surface energy budget" is recently published in Nature Communications. Among the authors is the LATICE researchers Frans-Jan Parmentier and Norbert Pirk.

A new study titled "Strong isoprene emission response to temperature in tundra vegetation" is published in PNAS. Among the authors is LATICE researcher Norbert Pirk and both LATICE and EMERALD projects are acknowledged in the paper.

LATICE and the Department of Geosciences is hosting one of this year's Fulbright Scholars at University of Oslo, Michael Bekken. He will study transfer of carbon from soil to atmosphere, to better  parameterize the Norwegian Earth System Model.

LATICE PhD student Astrid Vatne and researcher Ane Vollsnes' study on evapotranspiration is highlighted on Titan.

The European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2022 brings together geoscientists from all over the world to a conference covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary and space sciences. Also this year several researchers from the LATICE community will present their work at the conference both on-site and online.

Peter Horvath defended his thesis "Ecological Climatology and Distribution Modelling" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor, on February 18, 2022.

The European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2021 brings together geoscientists from all over the world to a conference covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary and space sciences. Also this year several LATICE researchers will present their work at this online conference.

Sara Marie Blichner will defend her thesis "From trees to cloud seeds: Modelling the climate influence of biogenic volatile organic compounds with the Norwegian Earth System Model" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor, on Apr. 15, 2021 10:15 AM.

Team of authors from LATICE, GEco and NIBIO have a new paper published in one of the open-access EGU journals – Biogeosciences. In the paper named Improving the representation of high-latitude vegetation distribution in dynamic global vegetation models the authors evaluated the performance of three methods for representing vegetation cover.

In collaboration with LATICE, Anders Bryn and Peter Horvath have mapped ecosystem types within two areas at Finse, Norway, according to the 'Natur i Norge' system. The results are published in NHM Rapport 96, and the maps are available online.

Jon Håvard Hartveit Eriksrød will defend his thesis "Ultra-wideband In-situ Bi-static Snow SAR for Water and Stratigraphy Assessment" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor, on Sep. 18, 2020 12:00 PM.

The European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2020 online brings together geoscientists from all over the world to a conference covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary and space sciences. Also this year several researchers from the LATICE community will present their work at this online conference.

The LATICE 2020 Annual Meeting now in March has been postponed to a later date in the fall. Save the dates!

Vacancy: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Earth System Modelling – representation of high latitude vegetation.

Save the dates for the next LATICE Annual Meeting!

Natur i endring representerte NHM på Forskningstorget på Karl Johan i helga. Mange hundre barn og voksne var innom for å teste artskunnskap og gjette hvor den høyeste tregrensa i Norge er.

LATICE Summer Seminar was held on 26 June 2019.

Several researchers from LATICE will present their work at the AGU Fall Meeting 2018 in Washington, US. The Fall Meeting bring together geoscientists from all over the world to a conference covering all disciplines of the Earth and space sciences.

The UiO Hive team helt 18 of September a kick off meeting (Workshop) for the UiO eInfrastructure hub Hive at Åpen Sonen, IFI. The goal for UiO Hive is to establish a hub around which participants can collaborate on this interdisciplinary project, where students can find fruitful projects topics and support to realize projects bridging across disciplines.

Skogene i Norge beveger seg stadig høyere oppover. Med støtte fra Sparebankstiftelsen DNB skal hele Norge nå få være med å forske på  tregrenser. Prosjektet åpner for deltagelse sommeren 2018, og konkurranse med flotte premier. Bli med på skogjakt!